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Air, water, soil and environmental signaling
Howard W Mielke1, John A McLachlan1
1Environmental Signaling Laboratory, Department of Pharmacology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112, United States.
Abstract:
Within a remarkably short timespan the world population doubled and transitioned from an agrarian to an urban-industrial society. The transition was accompanied by the major expansion of industries that releases enormous amounts of toxicants into the air, water, and soil. Naturally occurring and synthetic chemicals compounds utilized the same signaling system as vertebrate internal cell signaling systems. The concept of environmental signals provides insights to address the impact of biochemically active toxicants on humans and the ecosystems that they share with other species. Disruption of the broad signaling systems has the potential for global change that transcends the biological systems of all organisms, including humans.
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